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Many photographers think they are photographing nature when they are only caricaturing her.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1803
Born: May 25
Died: 1882
Died: April 27
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R. W. Emerson
Waldo Emerson
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Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.
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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
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But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.
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All science is transcendental or else passes away.
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The secret of the world is the tie between person and event. Person makes event and event person.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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Every opinion reacts on him who utters it.
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth it is the beginning of wisdom.
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A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.
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